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OK, I named this post that so that perhaps google will pick it up and those new to CSS will find this post. There is a really good reason that there are no tutorials on the internet concerning how to add content (a site menu is the most common request) to all the pages on [...]
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WebAIM‘s Screen Reader Survey, conducted December 2008 to January 2009, is a very interesting read. Yet another nail in the Flash coffin but surprisingly Frames are deemed easy to use by nearly 60% of screen-reader users. Give it a quick look. Comments open.
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For those that are not aware Firebug is a add-on for Firefox, and is essentially a development debugging tool, that allows you to inspect various aspects of a web page. It has become – for those that have used it for a while – one of those indispensable tools that make day to day coding [...]
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OK, this is 2008. I know there are tons of hack web designers out there that bought a copy of dreamweaver but please give me a break. Hey, I’m not against hacks, I mean someone’s got to do pages for $10 or else the bait shop won’t ever get a web site. I just want [...]
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April 5th, 2008 is Bette Davis’ 100th birthday and it is also the third annual CSS Naked Day. If you are viewing this on April 5th then you will see no styling. Any other day it will look normal. A properly written web page should fail gracefully and still be useable by browsers that do [...]
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April 5th, 2007 is the second annual CSS Naked Day. If you are viewing this on April 5th then you will see no styling. Any other day it will look normal. A properly written web page should fail gracefully and still be useable by browsers that do not understand CSS. It is the web standards [...]
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April 5th, 2006 is the first annual CSS Naked Day. If you are viewing this on April 5th then you will see no styling. Any other day it will look normal. A properly written web page should fail gracefully and still be useable by browsers that do not understand CSS. It is the web standards [...]
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Today day my Mom gave me a nice present. She let me upgrade her iMac from OS 9 (with IE/Mac as her default browser) to OS X (with Safari). Mom and change do not go together very well but she took to OS X quite well. That 400MHz G3 was partying like it was 1999. [...]
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Camino is a Mac only browser (that’s the way to stick it to the man). After trying it out is seems much snappier than both Safari and Firefox. It comes with “Web Standards” links in the bookmarks (always a good sign). It handles javascript that Safari chokes on (such as the buttons in WordPress’ Write [...]
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Like many I have grown weary of the constant updates and security holes in phpBB and having to constantly hack the templates to make them comply with W3 standards, I decided to give Simple Machines a try. I like it. I like it enough to replace the forum I have on this site. This forum [...]
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Get your copy of Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2. You can check out all the new bugsfeatures and then learn how to uninstall it. Make sure you leave Microsoft some feedback at their discussion group. Hopefully, we won’t need to design a new series of hacks and fixes for this new browser. Maybe M$ will [...]
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